The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-04
POLICEIN CHICAGO'SJAIL
FIFTY-FOUR MEN WITH RIFLES ON
DUTY NEAR THE DOOMED.

Thev Will Maintain Their Patrol Until
After the Hanging Spies, Fielden
and Schwab Weaken and Sign a
Petition to the Governor for Glenn
ency-The City Quiet.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-Two full companies
Of police are now quartered in the county
iaii near the Anarchists cells. The officers
were brought into Jail last night by the
hack entrance There are fifty-four men in
all. and each is armed with Winchester
rifle. These men will remain in the Jail
until after the event of Nov H. There
was no excitement in the Jail this morning.
Whatever stir was caused by the decision
Yesterday had worn off to-day, and every
thing was quiet around the establishment
The Sheriff has already begun the build
ing of the scaffold on which it is intended
to hang the Anarchists Carpenters were
busy this afternoon working on the pieces
which go to make up the machine of death,
and it will not be long before the gallows
will be ready. This is regarded in some
quarters as significant of Sheriff MatSonS
belief that the Governor will not interfere.
A CONFERENCE AT THE JAIL.
The event at the county jail this morning
was a conference of an hour between Capt
Black, L, S. Oliver and the seven doomed
Anarchists. Capt. Black refused to make
public the matter under discussion. He
said that he expected TO leave for Spring
field with petition for amnesty Monday.
To an inquiry whether he hoped for Glenn
ency he replied; Il am always a hopeful
man. / will hope until there is no longer
.t,1r orrOunH ~ II whap fbara paO OOlv ba
grief for the seven men murdered by law"
There has been good deal of talk about
the possibility of suicide by these men,
What do you think of itF was asked
They couldn't be hired to take their own
lives Not man of them would do so not
one If they wished to do so nothing would
be easier. But l tell you, that if their cells
were filled with deadly weapons and they
had poisons more subtle than Lethe they
would scOrn to use them. They are not
common scoundrels who would try to cheat
the gallows. There is no ignominy in the
Scaffold for them. If they must die they
would prefer to be strangled by the organ
ized robbery they sought to overthrow
than to slink out of the world like towards. y
THREE SIGN A PETITION.
August Spies. Samuel Fielden and Nichol
as Schwab signed petition this afternoon
humby begging the Governor to commute
their sentclAes. These three of the seven
condemned mer are the only ones who have
not written letters to the Governor that
they would not accept communication Of their
sentences. aud that all efforts in
that direction were without their sanction.
The signatures of Felden and Schwab were
secured this morning by Capt. Black and
J.. $. Oliver, who visited the prisoners at
the Jail, and had private conferences with
them. All sorts of entreaties were adopted
to get Spies to sign the petition, but
he resolutely refused to do SO as did
also Lingg, Engle, Fischer and Parsons.
WILLING TO WEAKEN.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon the same
petitions were brought to the jail by Dr.
Schmidt, Alderman Frank Sulbert and H.
lintmeyer with permission from the sheriff
TO confer with the condemned men. George
Schilling arrived later and joined the party
1t was plain that Spies had weakened since
the morning conference He read the
petition over several times After an hours
pleading Spies said: well, give me a pen, u
and with flourish his name was appended
below. The visitors then turned their at
tentiOn to the others who have written let
ters declining executive clemency, but OBJ
tained no further signatures
SEEKING IN VAIN FOR A HALL.
Chairman Oliver, of the Amnesty As
Sociation, exhausted his patience and wore
out good horse in an unavailing effort to
secure a hall for Saturday nights mass
meeting. No owners of places of public as
semblage can be prevailed upon to rent for
even one nlghu for that purpose, Joe
Gruenhut, George Schilling and Charles
Seib sat around Editor Buchanan's office
waiting for something to turn up. Petitions
came in by mail and messengers. Detroit
sent one solid roll of $500 names, and
Grand Rapids contributed 500 1t is claimed
that nearly 100000 signatures have already
been secured.
THE ARBEITER ZEITUNG'S EDITORIAL.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, the organ of the
anarchists, today has a long editorial on
the action of the Supreme Court, in which
1t says: "The request of our eight COM
iades for writ of error has been refused
! ny the Federal Supreme Court. For hun
dred years the United States has enjoyed
The reputation of being free country, and
up TO short time ago such
Ieputation was certainly most justiiable.
But lately few posSessors of colossal riches
produced by the common people, usurped
me criminal power to pervert and misin-
lerpret the laws created by the fathers of
mis republic III good faith and progressive
SPIRIT. They splatter with mud the name
Of the republic. The Supreme Court
~ w dSHlilSuOn, UDe Geflllan Imperial
Iourt at Leipsig, and the mar
llal courts at st. Petersburg.
stand ON level. The justice which is being
distributed under the auspices of Jay Gould,
vanderbilt, ct al, wears not onlya bandage
over her eyes, but also a watchword on her
breast, which reads The public be d."
PREJUDICE OF THE JURY.
The article quotes from Ben Buffers
speech, where he said that every
one OF the jurors was preJudiced
against the Anarchists. 1t accuses
lne Judges of having been led merely
gy desire of setting a horrible example to
'ue Wo- king classes to keep them easier in
submission. 1t warns the judges that he
VINO sows the wind must reap the whirl
wlnd, and closes: Heretofore the working
people believed in the existence of justice
, ana equality in this country. The cruelties
VI Ihelr enemies will open their eyes. Our
toinrades will seal with their blood
Lne truth that liberty and justice can
IrIardIy raise their heads in this country
however dear to us may be the life of our
Golnrades we must give them up, consoled
ny the hope that this human sacrifice will
hasten the day when the masses will learn
70 understand how they were being fooled
anu what a humbug has been made of
Justice"
ARS. PARSONS PEDDLING PAMPHLETS.
About noon to-day Mrs. Lucy Parsons,
we Of the condemned Anarchist, des-
eended the stairs leading to Spaulding's
printing Office ON Clark street, aud began to
sell pamphlet entitled:
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